Sharp County record., 1887-07-28
A JUST ggHpARIsOS.

Qre Hon. Isrn ? langley, national
-sr-ursr Of che Wheel and prominent
Eriva. Of Labor. vac Grated IN she pres
--.e If s7ree thousand Knights and
7VHgelsrs as Augusta. Woodruff county,
M 5ls fourth Of July, n Illustrating the
condition oE -ls country, anu We presume,
- .gg- .Ez -he spuo!ican ere sae only
--L7 good people rlJ ever held power IN
4-ss-ss=. Instituted ne following CON-
1llsgl-
an 1865 the stare Of Arkansas was
under 1uc c1u-el5i the republican party,
TEev paid the governor $4,000. In 1874
he democratic party obtained control of
the state and i1ed the governor pay at
$500. There bas been some change
since shat -ime and it Is now fixed at
$4,000. Now. suppose the law Of the state
should nave read that all salaries should
be paid in cotton. it would have taken
about EftV bales Of cotton per annum to
pa7 M. ClayrOns and Hadleys salaries.
You know farmers, that your cotton was
worth an average Of about 800 per bale
from 1868 TO 1873. Now suppose the
same law existed. How much cotton
would it take 70 paw the salary Of your
honOred governor, Hon. Simon P. Hughes
at the present prices? If you will take
the time to lay aside your partisan hate,
and make the calculation, you will ind
that il takes about 65 bales per annum to
nav his salary. Then. We ind that it ae-
tuaIl7 takes from % 20 25 bales more cot
ton to pay the governors salary OF 1850,
than it did the governor salary OF 1908
Well, here goes. We have very care~
/ fully laid aside our partisan hate aud laid
a saw~Iog on it to hold it down, and it
seems that the Hon. Lsom's mathematics
are correct. But. suppose the democratic
uartv had not obtained control and reduc-
ed the saIariea. By Lsom's figures it
would require rs bales per annum to pay
the governor now, SO you discover that
the one gaIIused democracy is saving 30
/ bales per aunum. See the poin2
Again, suppose the law, the salary anu
the republicans still remained, and they
continued the quaint custom Of receiving
their salaries IN state scrip, six dollars
for one as. was the case when they were
in power, and then, suppose that state
scrip shouId jump TO par, as it did under
democratic rule, it would take seven hun
dred and fifty bales TO pay the republican
governors salary each year. Therefore,
We might well say that the old red-mOuth-
ed democracy are saving SIX hundred and
seventy-fve bales per annum in this way
Again, suppose our good friends the re-
publieans still held the reins of state gov
eminent and their school law approved
July 23d, 1868 was still in force with its
ten Circuit Superintendents Of Public In
ssruetion with a salary of $4,000 each and
expenses, making forty thousand dollars
per annum paid out Of the school fund.
But the law IS repealed. a better one that
costs nothing for circuit or county super
intendents fills it's place. The democrats
are in power and one thousand bales Of
cetton are saved 70 the Taxpayers and
their children each year. Seer
| Again, the state has double the popula.
tion it had in 1s68-74, yet the public bus
/ mess is done honestly and faithfully by
the same number Of democratic officers
whose salaries lack s2l 800 per annum Of
reaching the salaries paid the republicans.
thereby saving TO the people five hundred
and twenty-five bales of cotton. the bag
/ ging and ties and two hundred and eighty
pounds Of seed cotton in the pen.
Now. we might 20 on indefinitely add
| ing bale to bale until we demonstrate the
facr thar the democratic party has not only
/ saved all the cotton that ever was saved
TO the American farmer, but has actually
saved the country several times, and
means to save it again in 1888 with your
Uncle Grover, James Mitchell and others
| When it comes TO coJon statistics, Mr.
Langley should tro: out something supe
rior 20 the republican outfit Of Is6S-74 TO
/ compare to The dUuble-b easted denee-
racy.